[Platform] [candidate-development] statecom proposal re ballot question on predatory lending

[Mike Heichman]

Merelice

Thanks so much for your responses. You have satisfied my concerns to my 
questions.

I agree with you and hope that there will soon be a meeting of the 
Rainbow Caucus.

I think that the 4 of you on the Rainbow Caucus have done a tremendous job.

I think that this would be a great question for our party to work on.

Thanks,

Mike Heichman



Merelice wrote:

>On 3/29/08, Mike Heichman <mikeheichman at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Hi Merelice,
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>> This sounds like an excellent idea for a ballot question.
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>> I have some procedural concerns and questions:
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>> 1. The last State Committee meeting adopted my proposal (as modified by
>> Jill Stein) to explore putting one or more questions on the ballot. I
>> don't have the exact language of what was adopted by the meeting because
>> our Secretary has not yet sent out the meeting. However, my memory is
>> that the Platform Committee aided by the CDLC (Its reps are Gary and
>> Jill.) are supposed to coordinate this plan. Has this proposal been sent
>> to the Platform Comm?
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>This proposal was done in response to a request from those on the
>platform committee working on developing ballot questions -- that is,
>it was their initiative, not mine, though I did tell some folks that
>our Norfolk/Suffolk Convention put it at the top of the list.
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>> 2. I'm a member of the Rainbow Caucus. This group hasn't met for months.
>> I know that there are at least a few members of the Caucus have been
>> working on this issue. Has this question (or will this question) be sent
>> to the Rainbow Caucus for vetting?
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>The four Rainbow people working on this issue -- Chuck, Grace, Eva,
>and I -- are all aware of this. For that matter, so are the up to 20
>organizations who are now members of MAAPL.
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>I do think it is time to have a meeting of the Rainbow Coalition
>Caucus, but I don't have the time to organize it.
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>Merelice
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